Touchdowns were frustratingly just out of reach for the Redskins against the Rams on Sunday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Redskins 9, Rams 7: First things first: the Redskins won. Rather than rehashing the few highlights that were to be found (see: the fine effort provided by the defense, those of you with Shaun Suisham on your fantasy team), let’s address the fact that, apparently, many of the Skins offensive players had their fragile feelings hurt by the sizable boos which rained down from all levels of FedEx Field.

“To the fans: the booing doesn’t help…we’d appreciate it if you didn’t boo,” declared Antwan Randle-El over the airwaves.

Okay, who would like to remind these guys that they are professional athletes? Look, there’s a time and a place for booing at different football games. At high school contests, it’s never called for; hell, at most intercollegiate events, the threshold for a booable offense is fairly high. But in the National Football League, teams that drop two surefire touchdown passes and run the same repetitive set of plays every time they get into the red zone (hey, Jim Zorn — the defense knows that you’re running Portis on first down every time down there) should get booed, consistently and roundly.

Chris Cooley added after the game that “Washington prides themselves on being the best fans, and I think that they should try to be the best fans.”

Perhaps. But in turn, shouldn’t the offense that those fans pay good money to watch be able to pride itself on scoring at least one touchdown against one of the two worst teams in the league? Fortunately, the Redskins have the other candidate for the league’s worst team in lowly Detroit (losers of 19 in a row!) on the schedule next week; the mind struggles to imagine the offense has not getting in the end zone against the Lions.

Mets 6, Nationals 2: Garrett Mock (3-9) got off to a rough start…again, and the Mets shutout the Nats through eight to win the series.